A California high school’s not laughing about yearbook photos showing Spanish teachers decked out in sombreros, ponchos and fake mustaches, KNSD reports.

A statement released by San Pasqual High School administrators calls the photos “insensitive” and says the teachers showed “poor judgment,” KGTV reported. The Escondido school is north of San Diego.

“We owe an apology to our Latinx and Chicano community, a community that I am part of,” Principal Martin Casas wrote in a statement, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. “It is unacceptable and has no place in our school. I am saddened and disappointed that this happened, but we will use it as (an) opportunity to learn and grow together.”

The photos displayed in the World Language Faculty section of the school’s 2019 yearbook feature six Spanish teachers wearing sombreros and ponchos. The teachers, which include several women, also hold fake mustaches over their faces.

Another instructor, a French teacher, poses in a black beret, long black gloves and sunglasses.

The school’s statement says Casas has discussed the photos with the teachers and that administrators are “taking precautions” to avoid future yearbook problems, the Escondido Times-Advocate reported.

“San Pasqual High School takes pride in its rich history and diversity,” Casas says in the statement, according to the publication. “It is our intent to use this situation as a tool to remind students, as well as staff, to remember the impacts of their words and actions.”.

He says the school remains committed to making everyone feel “welcome and valued,” the Escondido Times-Advocate reported.

But some parents contacted by local television stations and newspapers said they weren’t bothered by the photos.

“It doesn’t look offensive to me,” parent Merced Juarez said, KNSD reported. Her son had a class with one of the teachers.

“I think that lately everything is so sensitive,” said parent Tania Marin, according to the station. “If they were teaching Russian and they had a Russian hat, I would find it hilarious.”

“I’m pretty sure all they wanted to do was to celebrate it, because for so long we can’t even show our Mexican culture without being degraded,” said Salma Lucero, a 16-year-old sophomore at the school, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Others weren’t sure how to feel about the photos.

“They could be offensive if they’re making fun of us,” said parent Martin Pasqual, KGTV reported. “But it could be something honorable if they’re trying to do honor to the Mexican culture. It would be better without the big mustache and hats.”

“As leaders in the school, that wasn’t thought through very well,” said Escondido resident Brooke Angaga, KNSD reported.

“I thought it was racist,” said C.J. Craig, a 15-year-old freshman at the school, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. “I thought they were making fun.”

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Absurd, certainly. Brought to mind these words of Jesus: [They] have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! (Matthew 23:23–24)

I couldn’t agree more. However, a precedent has been set by school districts and colleges across the nation: No cultural costumes allowed!
Students have been reprimanded and punished for doing just this on Halloween.

Teachers should be aware that if students aren’t allowed, neither are they.

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ltuser

1:20 am May 26, 2019 at 1:20 am

MAYBE THIS IS Proof those rules need to be abolished! AS THEY ARE INSANE!

Political correctness is terminal disease spreading across the USA in epidemic proportions.

– Confusion over which bathroom to use or what sex people are (29+ genders)?
– What costume to wear on Halloween?
– If Asians are people of color or just light skinned smart ***** who should be kept
out of colleges?
– If boys should compete in girl’s sports or vice versa?
– What is white supremacy, black power, Black Lives Matter, an immigration status
(legal or illegal)?
– If our Founding Fathers were heroes or indigenous people slaughterers and slave
torturers?
– If our military which has sacrificed to keep our nation free for nearly 250 years are
to be admired or castigated?

Why is this offensive? I see nothing offensive at all. I see five teachers who probably are great teachers who are interested in engaging their students with good humor. Humor is good folks. Humor is why half of America watched Situation Comedies on television every night. So please, let’s knock off the fake sanctimony and act like decent human beings instead of political hacks afraid of their own shadows lest someone is offended.

My family is about half Irish. Does that mean I should be offended by Lucky Charm cereal because of the shamrocks and Leprechaun on the box. Give me a break!

I hate cultural appropriation too – I really hate it when guys appropriate cultural items such as female names, female clothes, female hair, female make up, female sporting events, female bathrooms, and female locker rooms. And which appropriation is harmful? That done by a person who teaches you language, culture, food, etc. to impressionable youngsters, helping them to appreciate it? Or that which allows women to get the crap beat out of them or have some of the most private moments exposed to men? And which appropriation is forced on us?
As for it being ‘racist’, racist against whom? Have you ever tried to look up the racial breakdown of Mexico? They have no idea! And how common was thick facial hair in the aboriginal people of the Americas? That comes from European blood so the mustaches are OURS. Or do they mean race as in English race, French race, Italian race, etc.? In that case what of their appropriation of our cars, our computers, our planes, our textiles, our alphabet, our languages…. abandon all the good things you have appropriated from us and THEN I will listen to your complaints.

This PC bull is out of control, a couple of questions for those who took offense.
Are you ashamed of your customs, your heritage?
Are you ashamed of being a Mexican?
Imitation is the greatest form of respect, unless of course these teachers were openly mocking the kids in a derogatory manner.
I grew up with some friends all of them said they were Mexicans and damn proud of it, they were not Hispanics, and they were just as hard on the “wet back” illegals as everyone else, if you want to be an American citizen, do it the right way. If you are here illegally, you have NO RIGHT to complain about anything.

Seems to me the Dem Party is well on it’s way to forcing us to surrender our sovereignty to Latin & Central American countries & they will soon also be forcing us to speak Spanish & surrender our language, culture & heritage to transform ourselves into official “Latinos”.

So, sombreros & mustachios will be de rigor (Spanish for required) in USA if the Dems have their way.

Viva the USA, the newly colonized territory of the United Mexican States.

Maybe us Americans should start buying up the land & property in Central America that must be selling cheap since most of the citizens have illegally relocated here.

Would be good investment for future vacation rental / lease to wealthy Dem scumbags once they have let all the poor & criminal Central American people to illegally settle here.

These teachers teach a FOREIGN LANGUAGE to students interested in that language, so after having worked diligently to master that language so as teachers they are qualified to teach it, of course they would be totally ignorant of the culture. Should a math teacher be shamed for holding a pie? Is the soccer coach ostracized for holding a football? Is the track coach racist by definition?

Well how about that, the only one that brought up racism was some white kid. And I’d be willing to bet he comes from an all democratic family. Good God kid, go pull out your dictionary and read what racism is before you run your yap like this. It makes you look like you were sleeping in class.

Spanish teachers dressing up in Hispanic clothing could only be an insult if you believe that there is something wrong with Hispanic people or their culture.
So the people wanting to apologize are the ones that harbor racist thoughts in their own mind.
Everybody else, no big deal.

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